I would recommend The Traitor's Game for readers who like quick romances, enemies-to-lovers paradigms, and spy thrillers in a fantasy setting.
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: The Language of Thorns
Fairy tales have a tradition of presenting moral conclusions and this collection sticks to that tradition, but with a modern spin.
Book Review: Tempests and Slaughter
This narrative is a wide-eyed, stark look at how tyrants rise to power in the real world.
Book Review: Leviathan Wakes
I can go along reading it for quite some time before it’ll do something to irritate me.
Book Review: Artemis
The story of Artemis contains a large number of items from the list of things I look for in fiction, as well as some surprises.
Book Review: Interworld
Joey Harker not only makes serious, life-costing mistakes, but suffers the consequences of his actions. So much so that at one point in the story, he winds up even further back than square one.
Book Review: What the Hell Did I Just Read?
David Wong takes chaos and makes it relatable, in a dark and humorous way.
Book Review: All the Crooked Saints
Maggie Stiefvater weaves metaphors like a spider weaves silk, and she filled this brief, slim novel to the brim with them. There are so many to examine, but I think I've picked out the main one...
Pre-Ordered Books of 2017
I've waited all year to read both of these.
Book Review: Un Lun Dun
The story itself mockingly dodged predictable hero's journey tropes, twisting around and jumping the curb every chance it got, as if to say, "you just thought you knew what was coming next."
